[VN] ~ sb/sth / yourself (especially BrE) to do more than you are capable of; to make sb/sth do more than they are capable of:
The prison service is badly overstretched. * Credit cards can tempt you to overstretch yourself (= spend more money than you can afford).
overstretched adjective:
overstretched muscles * overstretched services
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is overstretch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overstretch is tagged as verb.
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